Friday, December 13, 2013

A little bit of the aspen magic in this 4x4" mini with black painted sides is ready to bring the outdoors in to that special spot in your home! This gem of aspen is painted in mixed media, with acrylic paint, and paper. The options are as is to frame in a 4x4" frame (remember the sides lip of the frame takes 1/4" on all sides), OR for .50 more you can have the option of ordering it with a 5x5" black backer board, or an off white backer board. These allow your painting to be framed in a 5x5" frame so all the sides will show! The frames shown are not included, but are a suggestion. Black frame can be found at Michaels, and the Off White distressed frame can be found on ETSY at Rustic and Refined Design. This painting is ready to ship today!

We just returned from my mother's house in Oklahoma City for a 5 day visit. I have to say it was quite an experience! We drove to our airport on the day of a below zero cold snap. It took over 2 1/2 hours to get there...flew to OK City...landed in a major snow and ice event for them! We passed cars that had spun out and even turned over...a scary beginning, but that wasn't the end of it...OH NO...during that time it was SO cold and ICY that we were unable to get out save one partial day. Our power went out, and while I was on the phone reporting the outage there was a 4.5 earthquake! I'd never felt one before, so it was a bit disconcerting. And, to top it off I was sick the whole visit! WOWIE! I forgot my camera, so tried to limp along with the camera in my ipad...HOWEVER, since the IO7 update I haven't been able to transfer photos from it to my computer...don't ya just love those updates!! :) SO, I'm leaving you today with just the visuals of the trip I "painted" for you in words!